Lonely and bored, David Morrissey spent most nights and weekends snoring or staring at hotel room walls in New Zealand last year while shooting "The Water Horse" - a big family film revolving around Scotland's Loch Ness Monster.
DAVID MORRISSEY - David Morrissey plays Danny Brogan in the drama 'Meadowlands.' CNS Photo courtesy of Ecosse Films/Showtime. Most of all, the Liverpool-born London resident missed his wife and three children back in England to a point just ... [full story]

SANTIAGO, Chile - Chilean officials said Thursday they would send former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori back to Peru despite his decision to run for office in Japan.
The Chilean Supreme Court -- which is set to decide whether to return Fujimori to Peru, where he faces human rights and corruption charges -- would do so even though the ex-leader has requested to return to Japan, El Mercurio reported Thursday.
Fujimori said this month he would ... [full story]

Only one letter separates pet from pest, and that "s" attaches to the tiny hero of "Ratatouille" like a stigma.
After all, Remy is a rat. And he is in Paris, a great rats' city but also the capital of French cuisine. And never the deux should meet, as Remy discovers when he rises from the alleys and sewers to high cuisine (though raised on trash, this rodent has Remy Martin tastes).
'RATATOUILLE' - In ... [full story]

The windows need cleaning. The trim needs painting. The gutters need cleaning.
You need a ladder and you need tools. And, you don't want to be going up and down every time you need something. Let's face it, projects involving a ladder can be challenging.
The HANDy Ladder Pail by Bercom International helps make these tasks easier.
"You know the drill," said Mark Bergman, president of Bercom International. "You're working on a ladder project, climbing ... [full story]

People who call "Evening" a chick flick are not far wrong but may be ducking what the film offers.
The best element is casting, possibly the most elite gallery of women this year. Can a film go wrong that has Vanessa Redgrave, Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Natasha Richardson, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Eileen Atkins and endearing young Mamie Gummer?
'EVENING' - In 'Evening,' Vanessa Redgrave, right, plays an elderly mother who reminisces about her romantic ... [full story]

WASHINGTON - San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders met behind closed doors Tuesday with federal transportation officials to argue that San Diego should get $297 million of a $1.1 billion pot of federal money being made available for innovative programs promising quick results in reducing road congestion.
The money will be shared by as many as five cities pitching new ideas for reducing road congestion by 2009. Other cities in the running for a portion of ... [full story]

Occasionally, I have the version of the American Dream where I want to chuck it all and move to some quiet, rural town. Picket fences. Porch swings. Autumn pumpkin festivals.
But of course, every Mayberry has its Barney Fife. (For you twenty-somethings, that's a reference to a bumbling deputy from the bad old days when we only had three TV channels. Look for "Andy Griffith" on YouTube.)
Take Sparta, Mich., for example. Instead of Barney ... [full story]

He is the Ubiquitous. He is the Unknown. He is, as one observer put it, "the holograph; the metaphor."
He is Bruce Willis, and if he doesn't think of himself as a holograph or metaphor, well, that would be weird, since he was the observer who said that of himself (in a recent Vanity Fair article).
BRUCE ALMIGHTY - Bruce Willis returns to his signature role as tough cop John McClane in 'Live Free or ... [full story]

THE MOVES: Performing a shoulder-raise motion with the torso in a horizontal position.
WORKS ON: Shoulder-blade stabilization, rotator-cuff strengthening.
SHOULDER ON - Firefighter Phil Valoff demonstrates the prone shoulder flexion. CNS Photo by Nadia Borowski Scott. SETUP: Place one hand and the same-side knee on a bench with the hip and shoulder 90 degrees to the torso. The palm of the free hand should face the bench.
STEPS: Grasp a small dumbbell (1-5 pounds) in the ... [full story]